Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending (yet it doth not break) ? I will answer : These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. The British Poets - Página 3191866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| English poets - 1801 - 454 páginas
...with dew ; I straight will whisper in your ears, Ask me why this flower doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. THE INQUIRY. AMONGST the myrtles... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. CAEEW. Serenade. Hark, hark, the... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 474 páginas
...your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd wilt tears Ask me why this flower doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; — I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. The Inquiry, AMONGST the myrtles... | |
| G. W. Fitzwilliam - 1806 - 216 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth shew . So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ;— I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. SONNET. BY DRUMMOND. 1 RUST not,... | |
| Lyre - 1806 - 208 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears! Ask me, why this Flower doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too ? Ask me, why the stalk is weak; And, bending, yet it doth not break ? I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover! FEAR not, dear LOVE ! that I'll... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are was if d with tears. Ask me why this flow'r doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too. Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. THE INQUIRY. A MONGST the myrtles... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 414 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. ON THE BATTLE OF SABLA. [From the... | |
| Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending yet it doth not break; I must tell you these discover, What doubts and fears are in a lover. T. Carew's Poems. A CAUTION FOR... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 páginas
...ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. CLXXIX, THE TITHE. TO THE BRIDE.... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 páginas
...love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r doth shew So yellow, green, and iickly too; Alk me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ; I muet tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover, CLXXIX. THE TITHE. TO THE BRIDE.... | |
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